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Harvey Weinstein's Lawyers Dare To Use Meryl Streep To Impugn Women's Sexual Misconduct Claims

The three-time Oscar winner was NOT happy.

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Meryl Streep (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images)

Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys’ use of my (true) statement — that he was not sexually transgressive or physically abusive in our business relationship — as evidence that he was not abusive with many OTHER women is pathetic and exploitive.

The criminal actions he is accused of conducting on the bodies of these women are his responsibility, and if there is any justice left in the system he will pay for them — regardless of how many good movies, made by many good people, Harvey was lucky enough to have acquired or financed.

— Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep, in response to being name-dropped in court papers by Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys, who sought to dismiss a proposed class-action sexual misconduct lawsuit filed by several less well-known actresses. In their filing, members of Weinstein’s legal team wrote that Streep “stated publicly that Weinstein had always been respectful to her in their working relationship.”

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky has been an editor at Above the Law since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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